Daily Quiz for December 20, 2008

Which U.S. President wore a ring to his inauguration containing a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair?

ndrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant

ames A. Garfield

illiam Howard Taft

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt wore a ring to his 1905 inauguration that held a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair, cut off after Lincoln was shot. A strong believer in racial equality, Roosevelt was the first president to dine with an African American in the White House. His guest was Booker T. Washington, renowned educator and principal of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

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